Re: Youtube & Flash Videos broken?


On 2013-04-06 23:39, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> hello, world\n
>
> I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This
> has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos
> display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered "To
> render this video you need the Adobe Flash Player. Install latest Flash
> Player". Has Youtube conspired against me, you, FreeBSD, the world? :-)
>
> I'm wondering if I have screwed up something. I'm running 9.1-STABLE as
> of a few days ago, with up-to-date ports of emulators/linux_base-f10,
> www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 and www/nspluginwrapper ports on FF20.0.
> about:plugins says this:
>
>      Shockwave Flash
>
>          File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
>          Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
>
>      MIME Type                        Description     Suffixes
>      application/x-shockwave-flash   Shockwave Flash     swf
>      application/futuresplash    FutureSplash Player     spl
>
>
> Since I haven't heard the FreeBSD community screaming "Gimme back
> my Youtube!!!1!", I'll bite. What could the problem be? Is anyone
> else but me able to play flash, like for example "The true science
> of multiple universes" in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg